Leo Sands is a breaking-news reporter and editor in The Washington Post’s London Hub, covering news as it unfolds around the world.

1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, continues in the village of Prokhorovka, between Russian and German forces. The Soviets will win ...

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Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

Edwin Lyman is the director of Nuclear Power Safety with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Climate and Energy program. He is a co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of the book ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV doubled down on Friday on his appeal for unity in the polarized Catholic Church, urging priests to act in communion with their superiors and ...

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for unity within the Catholic Church. He spoke to priests during a special Holy Year week in Rome and he urged them to ...

"Leo Woodall will star as the titular Vladimir -- joining Rachel Weisz in the upcoming adaptation of the Julia May Jonas novel," Netflix announced Thursday.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday will bless and bestow the “pallium” — a white woolen vestment symbolizing pastoral authority and unity with the pope — on 48 new metropolitan archbishops, including ...

Pope Leo XIV ordains a priest in St. Peter’s Basilica on the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday, June 27, 2025. (photo: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA / EWTN) ...